Tag: Nation

US diplomats barred from ice bucket challenge

Matthew Lee · August 21, 2014 5:17 pm

In this June 17, 2011 photo, journalist James Foley receives applause from students at the Christa McAuliffe Regional Charter Public School in Framingham, Mass. Foley had been released a month prior after being detained for six weeks in Libya. Students at the school had written government leaders to work for his release. Foley was abducted in November 2012 while covering the Syrian conflict. Islamic militants posted a video showing his murder on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, and said they killed him because the U.S. had launched airstrikes in northern Iraq. (AP Photo/MetroWest Daily News, Ken McGagh) MANDATORY CREDIT

National Security

Foley’s death isn’t changing views in Congress

Bradley Klapper · August 21, 2014 5:09 pm

US launches more airstrikes in Iraq

US launches more airstrikes in Iraq

Lolita Baldor · August 21, 2014 3:43 pm

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks about the killing of journalist James Foley in Syria during a statement in Edgartown, Mass., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. The president said the US will continue to confront Islamic State extremists despite the brutal murder of journalist James Foley. Obama said the entire world is "appalled" by Foley's killing. The president says he spoke Wednesday with Foley's family and offered condolences. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

US special ops tried but failed to find hostages

Julie Pace · August 21, 2014 9:25 am

Displaced Iraqis settle at a new camp outside the Bajid Kandala camp in Feeshkhabour town, Iraq, Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Some 1.5 million people have been displaced by fighting in Iraq since the Islamic State's rapid advance began in June, and thousands more have died. The scale of the humanitarian crisis prompted the U.N. to declare its highest level of emergency last week. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

National Security

As US airstrikes in Iraq grow, details stay thin

Robert Burns · August 21, 2014 7:09 am

President Barack Obama speaks in Edgartown, Mass., Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014, about the killing of American journalist James Foley by militants with the Islamic State extremist group. The president said the US will continue to confront Islamic State extremists despite the brutal murder of journalist James Foley. Obama said the entire world is "appalled" by Foley's killing. The president says he spoke Wednesday with Foley's family and offered condolences. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

US mission to rescue hostages in Syria failed

Julie Pace · August 21, 2014 3:34 am

Judge: Justice Dept must provide list of documents

Judge: Justice Dept must provide list of documents

Pete Yost · August 21, 2014 12:19 am

National Security

Beheading spurs new attacks on Islamic militants

LARA JAKESRYAN LUCAS · August 20, 2014 11:25 pm

Officials: Special forces sent to Syria to rescue US hostages this summer but didn’t find any

Officials: Special forces sent to Syria to rescue US hostages this summer but didn’t find any

Washington Examiner · August 20, 2014 10:30 pm

Attorney General Eric Holder during his meeting at the FBI building in St. Louis, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014. Holder has told Ferguson community leaders that he has assigned the federal government's "most experienced agents and prosecutors" to the investigation of a white police officer's fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

Holder discusses police mistrust outside Ferguson

CONNIE CASSJESSE J. HOLLAND · August 20, 2014 9:57 pm

US offers new bounties for Haqqani network members

US offers new bounties for Haqqani network members

Washington Examiner · August 20, 2014 9:33 pm

FILE - In this July 31, 2014, file photo, faith leaders and activists participates in a demonstration in front of the White House in Washington, asking President Barack Obama to modify his deportation policies. Obama is considering key changes in the legal immigration system requested by tech, industry and powerful interest groups. Administration officials and advocates say those steps would go beyond the expected relief from deportations for some immigrants in the U.S. illegally that Obama signaled he'd pursue after immigration efforts in Congress collapsed. (AP Photo/Luis Alonso Lugo, File)

Obama weighs broader move on legal immigration

LAURA WIDES-MUNOZJOSH LEDERMAN · August 20, 2014 8:55 pm